On 23/05/2011, geni <geni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Google's search results are entirely their business.
Actually not entirely, we do have quite a bit of control. In an absolute worse case we could noindex the entire article (I'm not suggesting it, in fact I strongly recommend against it). But google pay attention to how many articles link to it, and there's an enormous 'political neologism' template at the end of the article, which makes them all mutually link. I can't estimate how much link juice that pushes into the article, but it may well be substantial, there's probably relatively few Wikipedia articles that link to the term otherwise, terms don't usually get that many links, but I don't know how many external links in there are, or how much link juice they supply. There is probably a reasonably strong argument for nofollowing internal 'link farms' like that, I don't see that one term should inherit another's link juice, but I couldn't see any obvious way to nofollow internal links when I checked briefly. > -- > geni -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
